One nitpick. I browse without JS by default and could not click on any of your links. If you're already using <a> tags, you should always fill out the href value so the links work no matter what. Use the web as it was intended.
Nice, I was thinking about building something like this but was turned off by the potential legal ramifications. How is this legal? Is this within fair use of the original author of the article?
The site looks great. A welcome change from Large news articles on your face. Great for skimming through the headlines when you are late for your morning classes.(my use case). If you add more general categories I will definitely use it.
I re-worked an available summarization algorithm into what I'm currently using. The previous one did not give sentence length as much weight as I would have liked.
The summaries are not good. They will point something out like "five key points are made" without stating those five points...which would presumably have been clearly stated in the article. Did you try other APIs/services/software?
This seems to be source-dependant. Looking at world news, articles from Reuters have no summary whereas CNN's articles feel relatively well summarised to me.
This is really great, I was recently looking for something like this, thanks for building it! I have some layout suggestions:
- Summaries are short enough that they could be displayed by default for all articles, rather than requiring an extra click for each row. This would be a killer feature, even if optional and not enabled by default.
- The categories at the top take up too much screen space - it would be nice if it was a bit more condensed (e.g. in a single row, or even remove it and leave just the side nav).
- Using inline cards instead of full rows would make it possible to see a lot more info without having to scroll so much. The current layout (one row per news) would be better suited for mobile, though.
I'm not sure about the quality of the summaries yet, but just by removing the clickbait from news browsing you're already doing us a big favor.
This is AWESOME! Thank you! I'm a giant news junkie, while I work in IT and like/need to stay abreast of whats going on, I also used to work for an online gaming publication. Checking news sites is just wired into my everyday routine.. and it's nice to have these stories aggregated in one place so I don't have the big splashy front pages on my screen at work :) Thanks again!
There is bizarre global auto-scroll behavior when expanding a cell to show its summary. On click, I would rather just expand the cell and leave everything else alone.
Also, the following CSS (with Stylish, for example) makes it way more readable:
Site is actually good. I think traders will find this useful. They end up clicking through multiple analyst recommendations. Instead if this shows a preview, they can make a better decision if they want to read the article.
Sorry, just a linguistic aside, whenever I see summarize I assume that I am going to see some version of NLG but it's always some version of most important sentence. I like the site though.
Nice site! Some of them don't work though. For example, the "Tim Cook Drops to #53 on Glassdoors List of Highest Rated CEOs" one just displays empty bullet points.
site looks clean and nice.
but it's hard to consume that amount of information.
plus it's not possible to always understand what inside the link if article title is misleading
